Okay, I'm finally compelled to respond to my fellow Nebraskan, about points he made in his campfire.
As you know, the folks over at Conservative Cave have set up a section called "The DUmpster." They copy links to DU threads, and snark at them. Now, I get that when one is talking about issue or candidate threads. But cars? I asked a question about my 2006 Taurus not starting.
It's the fault of the primitives.
The primitives politicize
everything, including their plights.
The seemingly-innocuous cooking-and-baking forum on Skins's island, for example, has lots and lots of politics in it; don't be fooled, not even for a second.
Notice, please, in the three and a half years the DUmpster has been enlightening the world, at no time, never, has anyone disparaged any primitive in unfortunate circumstances.....unless and until that particular primitive has politicized his plight.
I give you the example of the gigantic primitive, the Las Vegas Leviathan, the "Systematic Chaos" primitive.
There's lots and lots of fat primitives, and lots and lots of somewhat overweight people on the good doctor's forum where the gigantic primitive has posted.
No one at no time in the DUmpster has ever mocked or laughed at any of these other fat primitives, or the somewhat overweight people on the good doctor's forum; only at the gigantic primitive.
Because the gigantic primitive politicized his plight, blaming George Bush for that he had exploded into a quarter of a ton.
I haven't re-read that car-battery thread; as God knows, even franksolich doesn't want to plough through the mountains of material he's created, but if I remember correctly, somewhere along the line in that campfire, a primitive politicized car-batteries.
I've got to say that I'm honored to be of interest, although I agree with their poster Franksolich that I'm no Omaha Steve.....
It's a courtesy to my fellow Nebraskans that I've always denied those hanging around on Skins's island the designation as a "primitive," including even my fellow Nebraskan (although a
femme) who lives down alongside the Platte river, who has trouble setting herself down on the commode.
Nebraskans are so far and few between, so
sui generis, that none of those on Skins's island can possibly fit the rabid hysterical lynch-mob-driven primitives of all the other 49 states.
My affection for OmahaSteve is simply because he's a Nebraskan. A pretty stupid one, to be sure, but one of mine nonetheless. His girly-man, touchy-feeling, "compassionate, nurturing" ways are nauseous, but then on the other hand provoke a weird sort of admiration.
How such a creature manages to survive in what has been called "the most masculine city" in the United States, is a source of wonder, and I'd like to learn how he does it.
(note: "masculine" NOT as defined by the angry feminists or women's-libbers, but "masculine" in the sense of robust, strong, virile, hearty, vigorous, hale.)
Also, OmahaSteve, like 99.9999% of all Nebraskans, urban and rural both (franksolich himself has been both, even living in Omaha for a couple of years), has probably seen, up close and first-hand, two
phenomenae franksolich, who spent his childhood and adolescence in central Nebraska, has never seen; OmahaSteve has probably seen a live rattlesnake and a real tornado, probably both of them.
franksolich has never seen such things, and would like to know what OmahaSteve thinks of them.
It's just the usual standard customary habitual Nebraska curiosity about things.
When you need car repair advice over there, listen to JohnnyReb.....
There's no shortage of competent automotive experts on conservativecave, but my good friend John, from South Carolina, is one of the best.
If you're going to represent a website by invoking the name of a Nebraska coach.....
franksolich was using the name "franksolich" when the real Frank Solich was an obscure assistant football coach, like circa 1995.
This was right after I had returned from wandering around the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants, and the internet was just starting up. At first, as a screen-name, I wanted to use my real name (bad choice, but the internet was new yet, and everybody was naive about using it), but my real name wasn't available.
As it turned out, my best friend (an attorney in Omaha, but a rather modest and unassuming one) had already co-opted my real name, for his own purposes. I never did learn what those purposes were, or are, but given he is who he is, it's all copacetic with me.
Desperate for a name suggestive of character, principle, integrity, my eyes fell upon a news-story in the
Omaha World-Herald about a then-obscure assistant football coach; the name "franksolich" immediately attracted me, being suggestive of those very noble traits, and so I swiped it.
(For the record, franksolich--and it's been my screen-name wherever I've been on the internet, since 1995--has never at any time misrepresented himself as the real thing, and in fact avoids commenting upon football and other sports as much as possible, so as to not give any such misimpression.)
What I don't understand is why a car thread on DU would be worth following?
Some primitive--not necessarily the original poster, my fellow Nebraskan--interjected politics into car batteries, if I recall correctly.
